Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-01-10
THE REWARDS WE GET
DR.. TALNAGB DlSCOURSES UPON THE FINAL
APPORTICNNBNT
"Tbe Meek Shall Inherit The Earth"-As Soon As
the Earth Is Completed Christ Will DividshUp
Amongst the Good-Ths Fulfllmsnt Of The
Lords Work Not Yet

Special Telegram 10 the Reoiaer.
BROOKLYN, January 9.-The opening
hymn at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning begins:
20, could speak the matchless worth!
o, could sound the glOries forth
Which in my Savior shine"'
DR.. Talmage explained some OF the
prophecies before giving out the hymn and
then preached on the subject distribution
of Rewards" taking his text from Isaiah
LII. ~: ''He shall divide the spoil with the
strong" DR.. Talmage spoke as follows:
My family, who saw it with their own
eyes year before last, tell me that in the
Coliseum at Rome, where prosecutors
used to let out the half starved lions to eat
up Christians, there is now planted the
figure of cross. And l rejoice to know
that the upright piece of wood nailed to a
transverse piece has become the symbol,
not more of suffering than Of victory. 1t
is of Christ the Conqueror that my text
speaks. AS q kingly warrior, having
subdued an empire, might divide the
palaces, and mansions, and cities, and
valleys, and mountains among his officers,
so Christ is going to divide up all the
earth, and all the heavens among his peo-
pie, and you and ] will have to take our
share if we are strong in faith and strong
in our Christian loyalty, for my text de-
clares it: "He shall divide the spoil with
the strong"
The capture of this round planet for
Christ is
NOT so MUCH OF A JOB
as you might imagine, when the Church
takes off its coat and rolls up its sleeves
for the work, as it will. There are sixteen
hundred million people in the world, and
there are four hundred and fifty million
Christians. Subtract the four hundred
and fifty millions who are Christians from
the sixteen hundred millions, and there
are eleven hundred and fifty millions left
to be Christianized. Now divide the
eleven hundred and fifty millions by four
hundred and fifty millions already Chris
tianized, and it makes less than three peo-
pie for each Christian to bring to Christ.
Surely when the Church gets wide awake
no Christian will be content to take to
heaven less than three. Why, hope to
take with me at least ten thousand. |
know cvangelists that have already gath
cred fifty thousand each for the kingdom
There are at least two hundred thousand
men in Christendom whose one business
it is to save souls. So that when / tell
you all that we need to average is three
souls
REAPED FOR GOD
in lifetime, all idea of impOssibility van
ishes from this omnipOtent crude. | know
of Sabbath-schoOl teacher who has spent
her lifetime in teaching the young, and
she has had five different classes during
all these years, and she tells me they
averaged about seven in class, and they
were all converted, and five times seven
are thirty-tive, as near as / can calculate.
She brought her three and had thirty-two
to spare. My grandmother brought her
whole family into the kingdom, and her
grandchildren, and, hope, all her great
grandchildren, for God remembers pray
er seventy-ive years as well as though 1t
were minute old; and she took her twen-
ty-five into the kingdom, and had at least
a hundred to spare. Besides that, the tel
egraph and telephone will within few
years put the whole earth into compass
of ten minutes. Consider this and also
that Omnipotence, and Omniscience, and
Omnipresence preside over all the work of
betterment, and you will take this enter
prise of the worlds redemption out OF the
impossibilities into the possibilities, and
then out of the possibilities into the prob
abilities, and then out of the probabilities
into the certainties. The building Of the
Union Pacific Railroad from ocean to ocean
was greater undertaking than the grid
ling of the earth with the Gospel, for the
one enterprise depended upon the human
arm while the other depends upon AL
mightineSs.
Do really mean
ALL THE EARTH WILL SURRENDER
TO Christ? Yes How about the unin-
viting portions? Will Greenland be evan
gelized? The possibility is that after a
few more hundred brave lives are dashed
out among the icebergs, that great retriger-
ator the Polar region, will be given up to
the walrus and the bear, and that the in
habitants will come down by invitation
into tolerable climates, or those climates
may soften, and, as it has been positively
demonstrated that the Arctic region was
once q blooming garden and a fruitful field,
those regions may change climate and
again be blooming garden and fruitful
field. 1t is proved beyond controversy by
German and American scientists, that the
Arctic regions were the first portions of
this world inhabitable; the world not be-
yond human endurance; those regions
were of course the first to be cool enough
for human foot and human lung. 1t is
positively proved that the Artic region was
a tropical climate. Prof. Heer, of Zurich,
says the remains Of flowers have been
found in the Arctic, showing it was like
Mexico for climate, and 1t Is found that
the Arctic was the mother-region from
which all the flowers descended. Prof.
Wallace says the remains Of all styles of
animal life are found in the Arctic, in
Guiding those animals that can live only in
warm climates. Now, that Arctic region
which has been demonstrated by fora,
aud fauna, and geological Argument to
have been as full of vegetation and life as
our Florida, may be turned back to its
original bloom and glory, or it will be shut
up as q museum of crystals for curiosity
seekers once in while to visit. But Arctic
and Anthartic in some shape will belong
to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproduotive or
REPULSIvE REGIOSs?
All the deserts will he irrigated, the wa
ters will be forced up to the great Ameri-
can deserts between here and the Pacific
BY machinery now known or yet to be in
vented, and, as Great Salt Lake City has
no rain and could not raise an apple or a
bushel of wheat in hundred years with
out artificial help, but is now through
such means one great garden, so all the
unproductive parts Of all the continents
will be turned into harvest fields and or
chards. A half.dozen DeLeSseps will fur
nish the world with all the canals needed,
and will change the course of rivers and
open new lakes, and great Sahara Desert
will be cut up into farms with an astound-
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